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Nightly News
October 08, 2014

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>>>lucky may turn out to be the luckiest person in the world as they pick the numbers for the
power ball
jackpot and as we hear from miguel almaguer, perhaps no place is
feeling the heat
more than a tiny town near the nevada border.

>>on the edge of the
california
desert, the line snakes along the highway before it reaches the highway of the prim valley lotto store.

>>i'm here to win the money.

>>you'd think it was a guarantee the winning
power ball
ticket was being printed here. the wait, up to nine hours.

>>i had to come all the
way across
the desert to get here.

>>in neighboring nevada where there's no
power ball
, the vegas gamblers have ditched the strip.

>>i know i'm going to win.

>>with the jackpot at $600 million,
power ball
fever has swept across the country.

>>one ticket, that's all it takes.

>>43 states plus d.c. and the
virgin islands
, play
power ball
. new yorkers are spending the most.

>>i just won $180 worth of
power ball
.

>>but the it's the recent addition of
california
where players have helped generate a historic jackpot.

>>in the
golden state
, they've shelled out over 100 million in green in the last month alone. the odds of wins tonight's jackpot, one in 175 million. to put that into perspective, she's got a better chance of becoming the next president and sadly to say, she's got better odds of being struck by lightning. but some winners are a guarantee.
california
schools raked in $1.3 billion for schools last year.

>>it is a small amount of the state funding for education, but everything helps.

>>and tonight, keep in mind --

>>if you don't play, you don't win.

>>if there's tho winner, the next jackpot could close in on $1 billion.

>>that might be enough money to make you stand in line in the middle of the desert.